Reviewed by George Palathingal

It's the kind of show fans' dreams are made of: a band still big enough (just) to fill arenas, playing in a venue where even the folks at the back can see the whites of their eyes.

In this instance it was one made even more special from the start by the Killers leaving the house lights on for the duration of the opener, which also happened to be one of their most triumphant indie-pop anthems, Mr Brightside.

You could see from frontman Brandon Flowers' ecstatic, almost disbelieving grin that they felt it, too, attacking that song and many that followed with the kind of conviction you might not expect from a band that could have phoned-in their performance and still made everyone's night.

Six years ago at the Entertainment Centre, the Las Vegans did a similar thing – that is, start with songs more suited to the hugest of encores. Only then they had just two studio albums from which to draw: the instant-classic debut, Hot Fuss, and the gloriously ambitious Sam's Town. Now they have four, but those include 2008's terrible Day & Age and the current Battle Born, which, while a step back in the right direction, isn't quite up there with former glories.

So instead of a set solely powered by flawless singles and album tracks that are just as good, we got one diluted by the sometimes likeable but rarely classic songs of recent times. For every scintillating oldie such as Somebody Told Me (which arrived after a fabulously murky, unrecognisable intro) or the ever-epic When You Were Young, there were the pedestrian likes of power ballad Here With Me or A Dustland Fairytale.

There was a nice touch in a verse and chorus of Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over (not technically Aussie, if the Killers were going for that angle, but close enough) and All These Things That I've Done proved too stupendous to follow – literally a show stopper.

But these were merely among highlights of a gig that could have been an all-time great.